Some Super-Old Poetry...

[spinninghead]

Whilst cleaning and packing, I came across some old papers from high school, particularly ones from my AP English class. Here are some poems I wrote in that class, which I had entirely forgotten about:

The Car

Clanging and shattering
Hit my ears like a whip,
Glass raining down on my head,
As if from some sadistic cloud:
Around my body lay,
Battered and closing in,
Darkened and broken,
The car.

What a Sight

What a sight -
Two metallic bodies collide.
Their proportions quite stretched,
As a mouth flaps open
And hangs,
A child leaps out of the womb,
White-skinned,
But splattered with red substance.

The Haircut

Scissors squeak
And snip away
Thick, matted hair.
The transient sighs,
Her breath tickling
The curtain of hair hanging
Over her face.
One last squeak,
And the scissors are done,
Look what is left behind:
Eyes like the ocean,
Staring back at me,
And skin like ivory,
Tingling at the new air surrounding it.

A Thousand Kisses

The little girl leapt over
the puddle.
As she floated above
her own ocean,
her hair sparkled as the rain showered it
with a thousand kisses.

Kinda hard to believe I wrote this stuff over five years ago... I wish I could still write poetry like I did then. :/